Fundamental questions about ovaries may unlock longer human lifespan. Philanthropist Nicole Shanahan is spending to find answers.
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Why we can’t build family-sized apartments in North America
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The man in room 117 – Andrey Shevelyov would rather live on the street than take antipsychotic medication. Should it be his decision to make?
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Why flying insects gather at artificial light
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For the first time: system roms, data dumps, scans and photographs, and a MAME driver for the little-known Sega AI
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Recruited to play sports, and win a culture war
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What it takes to manufacture 3D printers in Europe
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Inside the decades-long fight over Yahoo's misdeeds in China
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Rob Pardo on World of Warcraft (2006)
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A wolf killed EU president Ursula von der Leyen’s family pony, it ignited a high-stakes battle
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A cycle of misery: The business of building commercial aircraft
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I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine
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Inside the crime rings trafficking sand
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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
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Precipice of fear: the freerider who took skiing to its limits
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Beatriz Flamini, the woman who spent five hundred days in a cave
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The new architecture wars
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‘America is under attack’: Inside the anti-D.E.I. crusade
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Dan Wang - 2023 letter
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China’s age of malaise
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How Nellie Bly and other trailblazing women wrote creative nonfiction in English before it was a thing
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The farmers had what the billionaires wanted
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Coming of age at the dawn of the social internet (LiveJournal, AIM, and other pre-Facebook internet things)
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Loneliness results from an isolating society, not individual failures to pursue connection
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers
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Michael Bloomberg's funding keeps US gun control advocacy on a tight messaging leash
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The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell
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Tools for thinking about censorship
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The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
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My disabled son’s amazing gaming life in the World of Warcraft (2019)
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The Hofmann Wobble - Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory
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No one's names were changed at Ellis Island
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Trials of the witchy women: Across seven centuries, women have been accused of witchcraft—but what that means often differs wildly, revealing the anxieties of each particular society
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The homemade limits of everyday weirdness
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The quiet death of Ello’s big dreams
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Five of the best Terry Pratchett books and suggestions for how to read Pratchett's work
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The poverty of anti-wokeness
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Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture?
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Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
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‘Succession’ wins Outstanding Drama Series, 'The Bear' wins Outstanding Comedy Series, 'Beef' wins Outstanding Limited Series at the Emmy's
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Why we crave – The neuroscientific picture of addiction overlooks the psychological and social factors that make cravings so hard to resist
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The three-decade saga that led to the Crown Heights tunnels
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Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details
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A theory of grift
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He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable.
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The price of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ambition – the Prime Minister seems unable to distinguish between his own interests and his country’s
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To fight absenteeism, US schools turn to private companies
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Utility by Jack Nicholls - fun sci fi short in which a super powerful future human tries very hard to impress and reassure a 21st century human
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Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?
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Predictions from 2018 reviewed
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